The Latest Breaking News on Mental health

Claire Edwards, from Solihull, went to bed as usual but awoke hours later with a rare condition where she mistook sunny weather for heavy rain and does not know her name

With many teens heading back to school, peer pressure and academic expectations are once again a reality. These added pressures can cause ups and downs during what can be an already tumultuous time of life. For some teens, though, the lows are more than just temporary feelings. They're symptoms of…

As state agencies front a Royal Commission, David Williams reviews the country’s history of treating mental illness with shocks, drugs and lobotomies

Glutamine build up in the brain may force people to take a break or focus on something else.

Concentrating for long periods fills our brains with fatigue-inducing toxins – so what can we do about it? By Imy Brighty-Potts.

It's not just in your head - it's in your brain

Scientists discovered that when intense mental work is carried out over several hours, it causes potentially toxic by-products to build up.

A controversy in the scientific community over a recent claim that anti-depressants can be ineffective at treating depression has highlighted the difficulties in understanding mental health conditions.

Eight months after falling ill with COVID-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on the tap at a sink and walk away.

Globally, heat waves have become an increasingly frequent summer affair, as much of the world faces extremely high temperatures.

A child diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy which causes her to have multiple seizures a day is to undergo life-saving surgery to detach part of her brain.